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Marchantia polymorpha
Also called Green Tongue Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort
Common liverwort is a flat, green, ribbon-like non-flowering plant that forms mats on damp soil, rock and shaded walls. It grows best in cool, moist, shaded spots and is usually found in the wild rather than grown as a garden or houseplant.
Marchantia polymorpha is a species of large thalloid liverwort in the class Marchantiopsida. M. polymorpha is highly variable in appearance and contains several subspecies. This species is dioicous, having separate male and female plants. M. polymorpha has a wide distribution and is found worldwide. Common names include common liverwort or umbrella liverwort.
Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis has a circumpolar boreo-arctic cosmopolitan distribution, found worldwide on all continents except Antarctica.
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